Title
'Jiao dou' tripod
25 CE-220 CE
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Tripod brazier (jiao dou)
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Han dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE → China
- Date
- 25 CE-220 CE
- Media category
- Metalwork
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 15.4 cm bowl; 19.3 cm overall height
- Credit
- Gift of Mr F. Storch 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.1980
- Copyright
- Share
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About
As with most Han bronzes, this tripod utensil is marked with a simplicity and plainness at odds with the elaborately decorated ritual bronzes of the preceding Shang and Zhou dynasties. The dragon's head, as cast on the long handle, may not have had a deep religious meaning, serving instead as an auspicious symbol. The 'jiao dou' was a wine-warming utensil, examples of which have been found in archaeological contexts placed atop iron stoves.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Early Chinese art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Feb 1983–08 May 1983
Dragon (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jan 2012–06 May 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies, Early Chinese Art, Sydney, 1983, (illus.) not paginated. cat.no. XVIII. See 'Further Information' for text.
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Jackie Menzies, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Asian Art', pg. 85-103, Sydney, 1981, 102 (illus.). cat.no. 33
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